“What we call ‘normal’ is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. It is radically estranged from the structure of being. The more one sees this, the more senseless it is… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“What we call ‘normal’ is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. It is radically… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“We have all been processed on Procrustean beds. At least some of us have managed to hate what they have made of us. Inevitably… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“The Lotus opens. Movement from earth, through water, from fire to air. Out and in beyond life and death now, beyond inner and outer,… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“What an interesting finger let me suck it. It's not an interesting finger take it away.” — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“The group, whether We or You or Them, is not a new individual or organism or hyperorganism on the social scene; it has no… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world—the interpersonal world, and the realm of human collectivities.… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“This writing is not exempt. It remains like all writing an absurd and revolting effort to make an impression on a world that will… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“I am not fond of the word psychological. There is no such thing as the psychological. Let us say that one can improve the… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Under the heading of "defense mechanisms,” psychoanalysis describes a number of ways in which a person becomes alienated from himself. For example, repression, denial,… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.” — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“The greatest psychopathologist has been Freud. Freud was a hero. He descended to the “Underworld” and met there stark terrors. He carried with him… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
